Review of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) by Kevin M. W — 29 Feb 2016
Nicholson plays a drifter closely rooted to his basic animalistic tendencies. Lange plays a similar type of woman, currently pretending otherwise. When they meet there's never a question, not for a moment, about their hooking up.
That she's a married woman seems only the slightest of distractions. But what to make of these two? Rafelson doesn't seem to know, and neither does Mamet. The Greed angle of this morality play is downplayed (if not totally forgotten) and that exclusion hamstrings this effort.
The two leads are magnetic enough, revelling in the Lust angle, but they simply aren't going anywhere past that. In retrospect, and if I were a gossip columnist, I'd guess that this film was put together simply legitimize Nicholson banging Lange and Huston.
The effort feels as sordid as all that.
This review of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) was written by Kevin M. W on 29 Feb 2016.
The Postman Always Rings Twice has generally received positive reviews.
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